{"id":97167674,"date":"2010-06-21T10:44:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-21T10:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/iceland-s-volcanic-ash-cloud-costs-european-airports-371-million\/"},"modified":"2010-06-21T10:44:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-21T10:44:00","slug":"iceland-s-volcanic-ash-cloud-costs-european-airports-371-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/iceland-s-volcanic-ash-cloud-costs-european-airports-371-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Iceland&#8217;s Volcanic Ash Cloud Costs European Airports $371 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong>Ash cloud costs airlines millions<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe pesky ash cloud from Iceland&#39;s volcano costs Europe&#39;s airports an estimated 300 million Euros ($371 million USD) in losses and 17 million customers.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAfter seeing a first quarter growth of 5.2 percent in air travel in Europe, the ash plume pretty much toppled what was suppose to be the comeback year for the airline industry.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe threat of another round of eruptions is not out of the question, which has many airlines worried that they will see a repeat on what occurred in April when planes were grounded for nearly a week.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe only positive for the airlines is that they have seen strong summer bookings and fully expect a growth of 3 percent as the economy slowly improves and more people start flying again.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/37756125\/ns\/travel-news\/\" target=\"_blank\"> MSNBC <\/a><\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Ash cloud costs airlines millions &nbsp; The pesky ash cloud from Iceland&#39;s volcano costs Europe&#39;s airports an estimated 300 million Euros ($371 million USD) in losses and 17 million customers.&nbsp; &nbsp; After seeing a first quarter growth of 5.2 percent in air travel in Europe, the ash plume pretty much toppled what was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97167674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97167674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97167674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97167674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97167674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97167674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97167674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}